| Whitelash: Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box Contributor(s): Smith, Terry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108445462 ISBN-13: 9781108445467 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Constitutional |
| Dewey: 342.730 |
| LCCN: 2019042609 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: If postmortems of the 2016 US presidential election tell us anything, it's that many voters discriminate on the basis of race, which raises an important question: in a society that outlaws racial discrimination in employment, housing, and jury selections, should voters be permitted to racially discriminate in selecting a candidate for public office? In Whitelash, Terry Smith argues that such racialized decision-making is unlawful and that remedies exist to deter this reactionary behavior. Using evidence of race-based voting in the 2016 presidential election, Smith deploys legal analogies to demonstrate how courts can decipher when groups of voters have been impermissibly influenced by race, and impose appropriate remedies. This groundbreaking work should be read by anyone interested in how the legal system can re-direct American democracy away from the ongoing electoral scourge that many feared 2016 portended. |
Contributor Bio(s): Smith, Terry: - Terry Smith has spent twenty-five years teaching at national law schools, most recently as a Distinguished Research Professor. His legal scholarship has been cited by federal courts, and he is the author of the book Barack Obama, Post-racialism, and the New Politics of Triangulation (2012). |